Not Pynchon just Shakey from a fave of his. Measure for Measure..Goes out because Jochen..
Jochen Stremmel
jstremmel at gmail.com
Sun Aug 18 07:47:07 CDT 2019
Thanks, Mark. Yes, I looked it up in A Pocket Lexicon & Concordance to the
Works of Shakespeare (London MCMIX) and the only entry there for that word
is indeed MfM (=walled round) – not that I doubted Tanner.
Am So., 18. Aug. 2019 um 12:51 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>:
> A single word example of Shakey's genius:
>
> "One would hardly look for release and revivification in a garden belonging
> to Angelo. Interestingly, it is a 'garden circummured with brick'.
> Shakespeare invents the word 'circummured' for this play, and never uses it
> again. (!). It means--obviously enough --walled around or walled in."
>
> ---Tony Tanner
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